Calcasieu Lake Destruction

[DaPointIsDaBomb]

Originally Posted by "W"

Hold up hoss...

You never heard me say the trout numbers are low on big lake ...

I have been for the 25 per person limit along

I said the big trout numbers are down and it for a few reason but none of which means over all stock is down...

Stock is actually over populated is biggest cause of lower overall size

How can trout be overpopulated. Thought y'all said the dredging was killing everything. Y'all need to make up your minds

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by DaPointIsDaBomb

How can trout be overpopulated. Thought y'all said the dredging was killing everything. Y'all need to make up your minds

It's killing everything but the trout. Are you not paying attention?

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by DaPointIsDaBomb

How can trout be overpopulated. Thought y'all said the dredging was killing everything. Y'all need to make up your minds

Population is relative to carrying capacity. Reducing the quality of the habitat by destroying the oyster reefs reduces the carrying capacity.

[MathGeek]

Originally Posted by DaPointIsDaBomb

Y'all hands don't know nothing about oystering in the lake in specific areas. They do surveys in the areas beforehand. They don't go to their crystal ball and decide which area to open up. There are also four cultch plants on calcasieu lake

Tong or dredge doesn't matter, the same amount of oysters are coming back to the dock at the end of the season. Dredging gets it over with quicker.

Is it that you cannot read, that you choose not to, or that you simply deceitfully ignore what you have read?

I wrote:

[Your] statement ignores the plain fact that the ecosystem benefits of oyster reefs are not only related to the biomass of living oysters, but are also strongly related to the physical structure of oyster reefs providing valuable habitat for benthic invertebrates.

Studies have shown that tonging for oysters preserves the reef structure and the habitat benefits nearly as well as not harvesting the oysters at all. In contrast dredging destroys the reefs and results in most of the calcified material getting buried in the muck and mud resulting in a much less dynamic benthic ecosystem. Further, all the silt stirred up negatively impacts light penetration and photosynthesis.

It is much better to think about the ecosystem in terms of the food web. Everything about harvesting with tongs is better for the food web than dredging.

[bjhooper82]

Guys, dapointisdabomb is a TROLL!!!!! He's just trolling(messing) with y'all. Stop feeding him!!

[rardoin]

Originally Posted by bjhooper82

Guys, dapointisdabomb is a TROLL!!!!! He's just trolling(messing) with y'all. Stop feeding him!!

Ding..Ding...Ding...Ding....We have a winner!

Tell him what he's won Bob!

I do find him entertaining however.

Mathgeek...never argue with an idiot as he will drag you down to his level, and beat you with experience!

[seachaser250]

Originally Posted by bjhooper82

Guys, dapointisdabomb is a TROLL!!!!! He's just trolling(messing) with y'all. Stop feeding him!!

He is the Michael Jordan of Trolls and he has a target rich environment in this place!

[DaPointIsDaBomb]

Drinking a beer with my neighbor Tranh. He is an oysterman. Let him read this thread and he is shaking his head. Said most of you couldn't work a set of tongs for more than ten minutes. And some of you sound like the kind of people that put okra on their gumbo

[jabert]

Originally Posted by rardoin

I do find him entertaining however.

lol he's my favorite... just don't mention crabbers from glencoe or things will get serious

[Trout rivers]

Originally Posted by bjhooper82

Guys, dapointisdabomb is a TROLL!!!!! He's just trolling(messing) with y'all. Stop feeding him!!

What he said^^